New Warnings Over Tar Sands Water Use

September 22, 2015By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured, News

The issue of water is slowly creeping up the political and media agenda in Canada. After last Thursday’s televised leaders’ debate being held in the run up to next month’s general election, one columnist for the influential Globe and Mail noted about the subject of water that “So many opportunities to bring up what should be the topic du jour – yet no one touched it.”

“The drought is a game changer on fracking”

February 12, 2014By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured 4 Comments

California remains gripped in a vice-like drought, with last year being the driest on record in the state. Last month, the situation was so bad that it prompted Governor Jerry Brown to declare that the sunshine state was in a drought emergency. “We ought to be ready for a long, continued, persistent effort to restrain our water use,” Brown said.